Monthly Archive for August, 2009

: August, 2009

The boys in Alice In Chains are back at it with new singer William Duvall and Wednsday they treated hometown fans to a sepcial invite-only acoustic performance followed by the debut of their new record “Black Gives Way To Blue” accompanied by a laser show at Pacific Science Center. …

Ear Candy’s Steven Friederich hit up KISW’s Pain in the Grass concert last weekend featuring Static X, Mudvayne, Saliva and a few others. Clown-pounding metlheads Slipknot were scheduled to headlinine but Joey Jordinson, aka #1, was sent to the hospital which caused the nine masked members of Slipknot to cancel the rest of their tour. Here are some pics from Steven’s day of metal. You can view his full set of pictures here. …

I returned to the podcastophere today with the sixth installment ofthe Candy Cast. This time around Brent and I talked about some great upcoming local releases in The Maldives and Built To Spill (we even played snippets of songs from both albums), discuss the awesomeness of Jack White, d0 some wishful thinking about Them Crooked Vultures show and I share my non-Teletubby experience at Marymoor Park for The Flaming Lips. …

Didn’t make it to Marymoor Park Friday night for the rock ‘n’ roll circus spectacle that was The Flaming Lips in concert? Don’t worry because Ear Candy has you covered. Actually, it’s photographer David Lichterman who has you covered and Ear Candy is lucky enough to host some of his photos from the show that he shot from the crowd. If you want the low down from the show, you can get my audio review of what went down by clicking here. You can view all of David’s photos from the Flaming Lips concert … …

Car company Kia is promoting its 2010 Soul urban passenger vehicle with a 10-city tour that features DJs and concerts from some bands that are pretty heavy hitters in the indie world. All the events are free. The concerts that are open to the public (there was a private performance by Manchester Orchestra last night) begin tonight. Here’s the press release with all the details: …

Ear Candy chatted with Born Anchors frontman Jason Parker while he was taking a break from the Capitol Hill Block Party last month. This is the second part of our conversation. The first part of our conversation is here. …

I wanted to share the awesome clips from the upcoming film "It Might Get Loud" which opens in Seattle Aug. 28 at the Harvard Exit and what better way to do so than to remind you that you still have time to enter to win a movie poster autographed by the film’s director Davis Guggenheim. So watch the clips and the enter the contest. To enter for your chance to win the poster drop me an email with the subject LOUD and your name and mailing address in the body. One entry per person please … …

Did you miss your chance to buy $10 tickets to see the Dead Weather, Jack White’s latest supergroup, at the Paramount on Aug. 20? Hey, don’t get mad at me for bringing it up. I told you it was a one-day-only thing and you had your chance to buy tickets on the cheap last week. …

I spent Saturday at the Gorge hanging out with the Hot Topic crowd during the 15th annual Vans Warped Tour. I caught 21 bands this year and about six of them were noteworthy. Highlights included shenanigans from NoFx, Bayside’s solid set, new material from The Fall of Troy, Less Than Jake’s horn section, some serious metal from Black Tide, POS slapping a dude in the face and Bad Religion breaking out part of a "Tom Sawyer" cover. Here are some photos from the show. Click here to see the … …

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